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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

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A catalogue of attack patterns as an abstraction mechanism for helping describe how an attack against vulnerable systems or networks is executed published by the MITRE Corporation

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Classifications

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Entity Type

Technical Specification100%manual reviewI-079.framework_split

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Framework is split by kind (Dorian, 2026-10-07; cki DESIGN.md I-079)

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Information Class

Publicinfo80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

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acronym: CAPEC
plural: Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classifications
possessive: Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification's
pluralpossessive: Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classifications'

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